COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Doubts and certainties; CHAPTER TWO Learning to be in the dark; CHAPTER THREE Secrets and silences; CHAPTER FOUR In search of others; CHAPTER FIVE The angel in the house; CHAPTER SIX I, me, myself, my selves; APPENDIX Marion Milner interview for Everywoman (published September 1992); INDEX
Summary
Psychoanalyst Elizabeth Meakins uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less about following pre-formulated theory and more about being led by the experience of what is actually happening